Ph.D. Theses

 

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  • Köroğlu, Yavuz. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022)
    Underestimating the value of software testing had catastrophic results in recent history. Automated Test Generation (ATG) is an approach that aims to minimize the manual effort required for testing. This thesis aims to ...
  • Çapan, Gökhan. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022)
    In modern digital systems, algorithms that deliver personalized content shape the user experience and affect user satisfaction, hence long-term engagement with the system. What the system presents also influences the parties ...
  • Chalabianloo, Niaz. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022)
    Stress has become one of the main contributors to serious mental and physical health issues in today’s world. Existing works in the literature have used Psychophysi ological measures and proposed numerous mechanisms to ...
  • Kara, Gökçehan. (Thesis (M.S.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022)
    Network flows is an active area of research that has applications in a wide variety of fields. Several network flow problems are reduced to either the maximum flow problem or the minimum cost flow problem. Maximum flow ...
  • Bilgin, Şaziye Betül. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2022., 2022)
    Dependency parsing is an important step for many natural language processing (NLP) systems such as question answering and machine translation. Turkish, being a morphologically rich language and having a complex grammar, ...
  • Çelebi, Arda. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2020., 2020.)
    Today’s high-performing machine learning algorithms learn to predict by the supervision of large amounts of human-labeled data. However, the labeling process is costly in terms of time and effort. In this thesis, we design ...
  • Salehi, Özlem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    Many of the numerous automaton models proposed in the literature can be regarded as a nite automaton equipped with an additional storage mechanism. In this thesis, we focus on two such models, namely the nite automata ...
  • Demiröz, Barış Evrim. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    Person detection and tracking can provide the crucial analysis needed to avoid accidents with autonomous machinery, optimize environments for effciency and assist the elderly. Omnidirectional cameras have a large field ...
  • Semerci, Murat. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    In this thesis, we focus on distance approximation methods between high and multi-dimensional structures and their applications. Two novel methods using distance approximations are proposed and they are applied to anomaly ...
  • Özyurt, Murat. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    The largest traffic on the Internet is generated by multimedia content, and the share of wireless mobile access to the multimedia content is ever increasing. The delivery process in the content depends on the type of the ...
  • Kurt, Barış. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    Statistical information about tra c patterns help a service provider to characterize its network resource usage and user behavior, infer future tra c demands, detect tra c and usage anomalies, and possibly provide insights ...
  • Karadeniz Erol, Zeynep İlknur. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    One of the challenges for scientists in the biomedical domain is the huge amount and the rapid growth of information buried in the text of electronic resources. Developing text mining methods to automatically extract ...
  • Yağcı, Arif Murat. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis focuses on the problems at the intersection of time-sensitive recommendations, implicit user feedback, and learning to rank. Major challenges for achieving time sensitivity are distinguished, the importance of ...
  • Öztürk, Hakime. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    The identi cation of novel interactions between proteins and drugs with computational methodologies constitutes a signi cant area of research. Most often, a drug can be re-purposed to target a novel protein which enables ...
  • Taşgın, Mürsel. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    Many real world systems can be represented using networks or graphs where ele ments of system are denoted by nodes and their relations by edges. Complex networks are special kinds of these networks with their emergent ...
  • Tunca, Can. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2019., 2019.)
    The gold standards for gait analysis are instrumented walkways and camera based motion capture systems which are highly accurate, but require costly infrastruc ture and are only available in hospitals and specialized gait ...
  • Bağcı, Hatice Köse. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2007., 2007.)
    This work proposes a novel method for collaborative global localization of a team of soccer playing autonomous robots. It is also applicable to other indoor real-time robot applications in noisy, unpredictable environments, ...
  • Kara, Yunus Emre. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2018., 2018.)
    As machine learning gained immense popularity across a wide variety of domains in the last decade, it has become more important than ever to have fast and inexpensive ways to annotate vast amounts of data. With the emergence ...
  • Yıldırım, Ahmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis aims to identify topics in collections of microblog posts, where topics correspond to a set of related topic elements. The rst approach, Boun-TI, examines the use of Wikipedia { well written cross-domain ...
  • Küçük, Uğur. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering, 2018., 2018.)
    Advice is a piece of trusted supplemental information that is provided to a computing device, in advance of its execution in order to extend its power beyond its limits and hence to assist it in its task. The content of ...

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